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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3452

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.100

Title:

Prognostication manual; in Latin, English, and Anglo-Norman

Prognostication manual

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1375 and 1425

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Language: Latin, English, and Anglo-Norman

Latin WIKIDATA

English WIKIDATA

Anglo-Norman WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 227 leaves : paper, ill. ; 212 x 145 (approximately 150-170 x 90-100) mm

Former Owner(s):

Woodward, Thomas, active 17th century

Thomas Woodward WIKIDATA

H.P. Kraus (Firm)

H. P. Kraus (firm) WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Fuerunt ...
Collation: Paper (two stocks: French, similar to Briquet 13906, ca. 1394; similar to Briquet 15858, Paris 1392), fol. 227 ; 114+1 (the detached first leaf is laid-in at the front) 216 314−5 (5 leaves wanting after fol. 39), (lacking a quire of 24, for a total of 36 leaves lacking after fol. 39: 5 from quire 3, a quire of 24, and 7 from the beginning of quire 4), 418(-7 leaves) 514−6 (wanting 6...
Layout: 1 or 2 columns, varies between approximately 20-30 lines. Bounding and writings lines, when present, in drypoint.
Script: Written in English gothic cursive in multiple hands in brown ink with occasional red rubrics. Fol. 1-40 by a single scribe.
Decoration: Phlebotomy diagram, fol. 23v; round astrological/astronomical charts and diagrams on fol. 47, 57, 68v, 69v and 70; pasteboard volvelle mounted inside front cover.
Binding: Deteriorated early/contemporary deerskin(?) over wooden boards, sewn on four split bands, paper pastedowns, decorative green and red endbands. Housed in a gray clamshell box. The detached leaf -- until recently laid-in at the back of the volume and described as such by Kraus -- shows clear signs of having been originally the first leaf of the codex, as it bears an offprint and wear...
Origin: Written in England in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Provenance: 15th-century arms inside front cover, argent on a bend azure three crescents (poss. the Rider family of Yorkshire); 17th-century signature of Thomas Wodword, fol. 39; sold Kraus cat. 22 (1942), no. 21.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1944.
Call number: MS q Med.100.
Former call number: MS 1527.
Bibliography: W.L. Braekman, "Fortune-Telling by the Casting of Dice: a Middle English Poem and Its Background," Studia Neophilologica 52 (1980): 15; S.A. Ive, "An Unpublished Piece of Medieval English Folklore," H. P. Kraus, Rare Books: Notes on the History of Old Books and Manuscripts 1 (1942): no. 21; L. Thorndike and P. Kibre. A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in...

Keyword:

Wooden boards

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

England

Volvelles

Autographs

Poetry

Manuscripts, French

Gothic scripts

Deerskin bindings

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Inscriptions

Massachusetts--Boston

Geomancy

Early works

Meteorology

Fortune-telling by dice

Phlebotomy

Astrology

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444788

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library